Word: deployment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western security and world peace." But he went on to say that the alliance was healthy, its structure sound and its strategy "valid and viable." Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Richard Burt argued that NATO had met one of its most severe tests by beginning to deploy new missiles in Europe. Said he: "The performance over the past 18 months has demonstrated to anyone paying attention that the alliance is sound...
Indeed, examples of the excitement of our times unfolded all week long. Within minutes of the predawn news of Yuri Andropov's death, TIME'S editors were gathering to discuss the magazine's coverage and to deploy correspondents and photographers. In Moscow, Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, worried by the melancholy music on his morning radio but not yet knowing that a Soviet notable had died, prepared himself for a stressful day by a half-hour jog through the capital's slippery streets. His weekend turned into a marathon of interviews with Soviet and diplomatic sources about...
...Maintain our nuclear forces at such a level and deploy them in such a way that the Soviet Union could not safely undertake a first strike of its own. Do not drop the nuclear guarantee-made at the formation of NATO after World War II-that the U.S. would respond to a Soviet first strike on Western Europe with a nuclear second strike...
...Pershing II ballistic-missile and Tomahawk cruise-missile programs. Paradoxically, that idea had originated among leftwingers in West Germany. Earlier in the year, National Security Adviser Allen had publicly derided "pacifist" elements in Western Europe who, he said, "believe that we can bargain the reduction of a deployed Soviet weapons system for a promise not to deploy our own offsetting system. Common sense, as well as the long history of arms negotiations with the Soviet Union, tells us this is illusory...
...verify. There would be no way to tell a nuclear-armed cruise missile from one that was conventionally armed. Besides, the Joint Chiefs took the position that a conventionally armed ground-launched cruise missile would represent too little bang for the buck, so there were no plans to deploy...